Pro-life - I disagree with your view but I won't argue it gun ownership - the only changes proposed are some regulations for safety Christian equality - this is where the problem exists. Christian equality is not real equality (given most christian behavior towards the lgbt community and basically want to put religion into life). I am not saying this about you specifically but that IS a concern now with your anti-war tendency, I do agree.
Now the big problem is that often people work on a make-or-break basis (as in having a particular view means they are bad in one's eyes). The question is: will you let that principle dictate you? As for the reasons: life and history of US.
Nothing more.
Because the Democrats reserve their pro-war speaches for the UN. Then the UN tells us to go kill some people in another country... Then our CIA tells them that will piss the locals off and make "terrorists" Our government ingores them... Then the Republicans say "let's attack them, kill, but not call it a war, ok? :)" If you speak out against the "wars", you are a terrorist.
They flip flop and blame each other, but really both of them approve of rape/killing/undeclared wars.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.